West London production duo Josh Lloyd-Watson and Tom McFarland have said that they were inspired to start making music together after watching The Strokes at their local venue, Shepherd’s Bush Empire, back in 2006. Fast forward all the way to the end of this month and their band Jungle is on level pegging with the iconic New Yorkers, both headlining on different days at Hackney’s All Points East festival.
Lloyd-Watson and McFarland remain far less likely to be recognised in the street, however. While never quite going as far as Daft Punk’s helmet disguises, they have deliberately retained an impressive level of anonymity for a group with three top 10 albums. Around the time of their Mercury-nominated self-titled debut in 2014, they weren’t revealing their full names and stayed out of their consistently stylish, mesmerisingly choreographed music videos. They were doing most of the singing, however, and performed on stage, albeit not as the focal points of their large live band.
